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Also guys, I forgot to mention before that (I think) I upxed the binary._________________Classic Puppy quotes
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root: n. the superuser or administrator account that has complete control over everything in the machine. Running as root is a taonga of Puppy Linux users.

upx compresses executables (unfortunately not libs on Linux though), so it saves space in your save file (they are decompressed when run).
You can find it on the forum if it isn't in the package manager.
The amount of size it saves can vary considerably - IIRC I saw one app go down from about 15MB to something like 5MB.

There has been some discussion about whether it is wise to put upxed executables in an .sfs, although it doesn't seem to do any harm. Some people also think there will be no benefit because you can't compress something twice - but I did some tests and the resulting squashfiles were generally smaller.

The main thing to keep in mind is that you can't run ldd on a upxed executable (need to un-upx it with `upx -d` first), and I think also if you try to strip a upxed file (or maybe just a file that was already stripped and upxed) it might corrupts the file._________________Classic Puppy quotes
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When I try to run tangogps I get
process 10012: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted

Hi disciple, I'm running tangoGPS + gpsd on an Asus eeePC 900SD with the great Puppeee 3.5 (thanks Jemimah!); it works out of the box with a Holux USB GPS receiver GR-213U simply by invoking the command gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0.

Just a question...I can't find on the tangoGPS UI any of the "control" tabs mentioned in the manual (Map, Trip, Track, Friends, Config), I'm stuck in Map only...it's a eeePC problem related or there's some trick that I've missed?

Ah - I should have linked to the release notes page as well.
I didn't find it intuitive either , but here's the reasoning:

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The tabs have been replace with an info pane on the right. The info pane is opened and closed with a new button in the toolbar or alternatively by hitting 'm' on your keyboard. On small screens you have now better usage of the screen because the tabs are gone and on larger screens you can have the information open together with the map.

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THANK YOU

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root: n. the superuser or administrator account that has complete control over everything in the machine. Running as root is a taonga of Puppy Linux users.

The arrow thing is a bit strange, rather than having tabs in the sidebar (perhaps just with an icon and a tooltip if it is necessary to save space?). I guess it is intended to accomodate lots more pages in the future, so there would be too many tabs - but then it would also be painful to cycle through all the pages. A drop-down menu would be another option.
What do you people who actually have GPS devices with small screens think?

I think the i button should really stay depressed when the sidebar is open, and maybe we could suggest something more meaningful than an i
Also, it might be nice to be able to resize the sidebar.

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